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Crimson and Clover

I've been avoiding updating the news for some time now; I've been waiting for enough newsworthy events to make a full post on. Thanks to everyone participating in the relaxing contest, as soon as the final votes are tallied, I'll be sending out the prizes!

First off is the YTMND Store, which is now open. We haven't started selling shirts from the contest yet, but as we do some test prints to see how well they turn out we'll add more products. Go check it out and see if it's of any interest to you. Orders will begin shipping on Wednesday.

In other news I've updated all the flash player code and I've been running the conversion for the last week or so. We're still about 24 hours behind on the conversion but old sites should be working properly for the most part now. To test out the new player add /flash.html to a YTMND url or set your options to use it by default. It will hopefully have a better design before it launches in the coming weeks, as my design is horrendous. One side benefit to the conversion is that we now collect(and display) a lot of extra info about assets.

You may have noticed the site being a little slow lately, it's because of some big upgrades and migrations on the DB servers to prepare them for the new codebase. All the DB servers are now running an up-to-date version of MySQL and they should be a lot more stable now. The search indexer has been changed to update hourly as opposed to the old daily updates, meaning you should be able to get recent results a lot quicker now.

In other news, for some reason that isn't apparent to me, I've been nominated to be a juror for the 2010 ANDY Awards, and voting for me may yield me a free trip to New Orleans, and I'll put any gift-bag goodies I get up as YTMND contest prizes when the time comes. There are also some other nominees you may be interested in seeing up there as well so it's worth a glance.

I'll be updating a little more often as we come closer to d-day. Just because I'm not updating the news all the time doesn't mean you guys aren't in my heart <3. I've been spending my time on a few hobby projects in addition to YTMND, and I may actually be getting a full time job, but I'll still be devoting time to YTMND, so don't worry your pretty little heads.

i don't know if this is the same thing but I remember (from my old account) there was a feature that predicted what you would vote on a site; that doesnt seem to work for any users who registered after it was implemented (like my new account). is this deliberate

HI MAX. HOW *YOU* DOIN'? I was trying to fix some of my old sites and found it very confusing that there are two tabs called "Sites" which lead to different places. can you rename one of them possibly or am I retarded and the only person who finds this confusing?

It's funny, igetpaid thinks his hits are legit through the YTMND website, but when you look at the backlinks, you see tons of sites that link directly to http://rappmusic.ytmnd.com including ones that have audio players that play the file directly from the YTMND database...not to mention his quote of "I could give a f*ck about max's bandwidth"

max, who won the Relax Max contest? Are you going by ratings or your personal favorites? If by ratings, I think you should award a 4th prize because lickitwellhiem's is the best IMO. That, or eliminate OmniIcyshelf and give him a separate prize for basically coming up with the idea in 2007. I don't know, I'm bored.

hey max, whenever you do update ytmnd's layout, i'm gonna make a funny internet site where i put marty in front of the new layout looking around saying "Whoa, they really cleaned this place up. Looks brand new."

Especially the time of a Gif. That could come in really handy if someone's having sync issues. (Though I imagine if any of the frames are less than .08s delay then that Time will only be true for Firefox, since it plays gif's faster than other browsers) For anyone curious what I'm talking about, check out: http://ytmnd.com/assets/ae82767b757432135d071431f36c31b2

So let me get this straight. We can have douchebags spam every YTMND with comments like, "watcha gonna do brother?" and , "you fail please try again ^_^" and 1 star them. But Uncircumcised trying to expose people to a globalist agenda is enough to get him comment banned?

Is anyone else getting weird audio advertisements on the profile pages? I'm not talking about the animated ones. I keep getting audio advertisements for twilight new moon when there's no corresponding ad on the page. It only happens at ytmnd too, so i don't think it's a virus

dude max, switch your ad service to something different. Everytime that stupid square firefox folding@home ad pops up in a site profile I start hearing weird audio ads and my bottom bar starts requesting data from like 10 different urls. People have said that this site has been flagged for viruses/malware.

Users disable AdBlockPlus to make YTMND a couple extra pennies. Users tell Max that his ads are malignant. Site owner ignores concerns. It's seriously f*cked that when a security issue is brought up, the best answer is to use a Firefox Add-on.

I'm usually good at finding old sites, but could use some assistance here. Anyone remember that one site that showed how 4chan came up with the name /b/? It showed "banned" change to "band" change to "b&" and so forth. It was by directory I think. Let me know if you can find it, anyone that remembers it, lol

It's to the point now where every 3rd or 4th page I load crashes my browser because of one of our wonderful new ads. Max, if you don't want us to come here anymore you could've just said so. I, for one, won't need much convincing.

I've been working with FM to deal with the malware being served up in remnant, as well as the auto-play audio/video ads. I think for the most part they are taken care of, but if you see one, PLEASE screenshot the page and mail it to me at max @ ytmnd.

it's such a screwed up feature...the yellow/orange color tells you what it believes you will rate that site as. you are first seeing this now because the last time max "refreshed" it...or how did he say it....run it through the algorithm....it was December 2007, before you became a YTMNDer. now, it'll tell you what it believes you will rate sites that were made before February 16, 2010. I think keaton made a site about it...lemme find it.............http://now-i-wont-get-confused.ytmnd.com/